White House highlights IU’s role in initiative to preserve water quality on Indiana farmlands
A summit on water quality hosted by the Obama administration on March 22 highlighted a program to improve water quality in the nation’s heartland led in part by Indiana University. The project is the Indiana Watershed Initiative, which uses watershed-scale conservation methods to reduce nutrient runoff from regional farms. Todd V. Royer, an associate professor […]
IU to host Society for Ecological Restoration annual chapter meeting
Over 200 individuals from 13 U.S. states and Colombia are expected to arrive at Indiana University April 1 to 3 for the annual meeting of the Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration. The event, “Overcoming Challenges to Ecological Restoration in the 21st Century,” will be held in the Indiana University Memorial Union […]
Craft brewing is a passion and a business for IU biochemist and cancer researcher Matt Bochman
When Matt Bochman arrived at Indiana University Bloomington three years ago as an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry — fresh off a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University — one of the first things he did was pay a visit to some of the craft breweries throughout the region. But this tour of the […]
Nobel Laureate and IU professor’s seminal paper highlighted in journal Genetics
Anyone perusing the 100th anniversary issue of the journal Genetics will be treated to a spotlight on a seminal paper from 1943 by a former Indiana University faculty member and Nobel Prize winner. Salvador E. Luria, a member of the IU faculty from 1942 to 1950, conducted an experiment in Bloomington that went on to […]
